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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Agenda for Thursday.

The Legislative Council is to meet on Thursday, when the chief þusiness will be the second reading of the Mui Tsai Bill Other business will be:--

Financial Vote.

$3,600 oa account of Miscel aneous Services, erection of a motor car shelter at Kowloon Point

$16,500 on account of Fire Brigade, other charges, rent of Temporary Fire Station.

$211 on account of Supreme Court, other charges, purchase of a typewriter.

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Medical Registration.

First reading of a Bill intituled An Ordinance to amend further; the Medion! Registration Ordini ance, 1884.

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It is explained in Objects and Reasons that under the Ordinance of 1884. persons could be regis tered wherever their qualifications were required, and the right to registration did not depend in any way on the standard set up by the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom. The amending Ordinance of 1914, introduced the principle of accepting only those. qualifications which would be recognised by the General Medical Council. The effect of clause +

the bill is to enable the Governor in Council to remove from the register any person who would not be qualified for registration now, provided that such person shall not have been in con- tinuous practice in the Colony for a period of three months a: any time during the period of five years next preceding the publication in the Gazette of notice of proposal to make the order. Notice is to be sent, if possible, to the person proposed to be affected.

Maintenance Orders.

First reading of a Bill intituled

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH; TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1923.

VOGUE OF VELVET NEGLIGEES

New negligees are velvet and the degree of this modishness may be told by the sort of velvet used in their construction. First the corduroy robe; then the velvet negligee-trimmed with a metal flower and lined with this silk. Then the chiffon velvet negligee, lined with georgette. Next the velvet brocade. Last of all an elaborate and entirely magnificent affair of velvet, fur, chiffon lining sad metal embroidery.

The second and last varieties are sketched.

WARS ARE ANTI- CHRISTIAN,

A Japanese Recruit's Objection.

A new

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An Ordinance to amend the Mr. Yujiro Takita, Maintenance Orders (Facilities recruit who entered the Serda for Enforcement)

Ordinance.division January 10, bas tain 1921:

the oath of military service af The Objectn acd Reasons refusing to do so for a state-By an oversight in draft because he believed i ing, the dew section introduced agains: Christianity in which by Ordinance No. 3 of

.1922 he

д ordent be- made section of that liever. to serve in ви Ordinance instead of belaz army whose business it is to

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ECONOMY IN POSTMAN'S CLOTHES.

His Coat to Last Longer.

An official at the London G.P.O. stated in December that in ac cordance with the economy re commendations of the Geddes Committee longer period of wear for uniforms and boots was to come into operation this year.į

The postman will be required to extend the period of wear for is cost and rest from six months nine months, but the period of

wear for trousers will remain at six months. For the boy

additional batcher their fellowmen. An

Hig section of the principal Ordin attitude caused the division au- ance. The result is that it is thorities considerable worry. On messenger the period of wear of doubtful whether a proclamation January 17th. he intimated his issued under that section would willingness to take the oath after have the effect of extending the officers bad preached and admon principal Ordinance

the ished him almost incessantly for possession referred to in the

Ence No. 3 of 1922.

p

a week.

the toit will also be extended to nine months, but trousers will be issued every six months. The boys will only receive a pair of boots every seven months instea of five months as at present. The period for postmen's boots remains unaltered.

On

proclamation. This bill therefore A reporter of the Nichi Nishi makes the section in question an interviewed the new conscript in additional section of the princips! the presence of the captain of his Ordinance, and it repeals Ordin-company after the oath had been

The period of wear for bead- taken. He said that bis refusal gear will be extended from twelve was not necessarily unqualised. to eighteen months, except in the He asked the commander of his case of indoor efficers, whose! regiment to excuse him from headgear is only renewed

Boy taking the oath until he knew the application.

messenger's true object of Japanese arma-caps will be renewed every nine mects, he declared. If aggression months. A considerable saving and butchers, which are incom-will also be made by the abolition! patible with all ideas of love, are

of the brass letters and numbers the objects, be, being a Caristian, on the uniforms. Sir. With reference to the re- could not serve in the army.

CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the Hongkong

Telegraph.")

The Greenfield Case.

In future, postinen, porters, and From the explanations of the messengers are to have to num port in your recent issue concern- oficers of his regiment, Mr. Tokita bered permanent badges, one to ing the statements made by Maid he understood the object of be fitted on the left breast of the Greenfield at his Public Examina the Japanese army is to safeguard cost and the other on the cap tion in Bankruptcy wherein he isational existence and to protect instead of the present "G.P.O." reported as having stated that the Japanese people from all ge When old unforms are was indebted to bim, and further) that I verbally agreed to sell birdangers. He said he was told also discarded the men and boys will that the final goal of the Govern-

be expected to remove these 10,000 China Provident shares in the early part of June, 1922, 1ment authorities is completa abol- badges and replace them on the

new uniforms. ition of the country's armaments, wish to state that in June, 1922, I This assurance satisfied the was under no obligation of any Bort to Mr. Greenfield and further Foung conscript, he told the re- porter, and he took the oath of deny that then, or at ans

service. He stated emphatically, time, I approached him with a

however, that be consected to Feb. 6d. 10h. 35m.-Pressure view to selling him 20,000 China ere in the army on condition has increased considerably over until the end of June, 1922, that I that when he saw anything in the N.E. Japan, moderately knew Mr. Greenfeld was selling officers had told him he would kong. It has decreased mode army not in accord with what the Tongking and slightly at Hong- China Provident shares short and

slightly from N. Luzon to S. revert to his original attitude, rately over the Loochoos and

Provident shares.

I then wrote and warned him of even under penalty of dealb

the danger of doing so. It is quite upan Adccrtiser.

true that in the past I bave had

money transactions with Mr.

Greenfield but all obligations by

me to him were fully and finally KRYPTOK LENSES settled between us in November 1921, of which fact I have ample written proof.

Yours etc. H. H. TAYLER. Hongkong, Feb. 6tb., 1922,

are the most perfect double focus glasses for both reading and dietant. In the ordinary bifocal lens, the segment or part for reading is cemented to the distant lens, raising the segment above GANDHI'S INCONSISTENCIES.

the surface of the main lens. The The English lawyers have dis-segment and the line of union are barred Gandhi, the Indian leader. always more or less noticeable. Gandhi had disbarred bimself In Kryptok lens, no cement is long ago in accordance with his used, but the reading segment is policy of non-co-operation, but electrically fused in a depression:

WEATHER REPORT.

Formosa.

0787

The anticyclone remains stationary.Le

Fresh to strong monsoon may Le expected along the S. and S.E. coasts of China and moderata monsoon over the China Sea.

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Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 bours ending at 10 am. to-day, 1.00 inch. Total since January

at 0.13 inches, against average of 1.83 inches. FORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS ENDING AT NOON TO-MORROW.

District

Forecast. N.E winds,

: Formosa Channel } strong,

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China

between

H.K. & Lamocks. N. winds, Hongkong to fresh; Gap Rock........ ( fine.

he was nominally entitled to in the rasin teas, while the whole 2 South coast of↑ practise at the British bar, to lens is grouad smooth on both the desired focus. which he was admitted in 1891. sides to It is one of his inconsistencies Kryptok lenses of any prescrip that while he has himself gained tion in either regular or Toric much of his power by taking full form are manufactured by The sivantage of the opportunities Hongkong Optical Co., successors English education offered him, o Clark & Co., Optical Prescrip be advises his followers to rejection Specialists, located in 53, all such advantages.

Queen's Road Central.

4 Bouth coast of

Chias

between H.K. & Hainan. )

1. 7. CLAXTON, Director. 3.K.Observatory, Feb. 6, 1923.

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For acute and chronic affections of the throat and lungs, coughs colds éte.

TRY A BOTTLE TO-DAY To be obtained only at"

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11, Queen's Road, ¡Central.

Tel. Central No. 1877.

Tel. Central No. 1877.

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An appeal to connoisseurs

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EVEN A PRIME MINISTER

with all his worries finds consolation in a good cigar, Try a Piccadilly Club cigar and you will get the same satisfaction.

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ALEXANDRA BUILDING.

HAMBURG-AMERICAN VESSEL ATTACHED,

Claim for Supplies During Internment. The Manila Daily Bulletin February 2nd. states:

German boats of the Hamburg- American flag interned here.

The patition was for renewal of one of five judgments embraced in the total sum of PI64,000, the one involved in yesterday's at tachment of the Preassen being P21,500. It is undertood that re ofnewal of the others will be re- onquested to-day. There is also s presumption that the Preussen will be released under bond, but this bad not been arranged up to last night. The attachment was

An attachment was served the steamship Preussen of the Hamburg-American line vester day afternoon by order of the court apon petition of Schwarzkopf and Obuick, attorneys for the receiver of Bayn, Meyer and Company, the Hamburg. who" sued American line in 1917 and ob- tained judgment in the sum of F164,000 for supplies furnished to

served at 1 p.ra.

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